[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3615 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3615

   To prohibit the obligation or expenditure of Federal funds to pay 
     foreign governments and entities for the detention of certain 
                              individuals.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 26, 2025

    Mr. Torres of New York introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To prohibit the obligation or expenditure of Federal funds to pay 
     foreign governments and entities for the detention of certain 
                              individuals.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Stop Aid for Foreign Expulsion Act'' 
or the ``SAFE Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON OBLIGATION OR EXPENDITURE OF FEDERAL FUNDS FOR 
              CERTAIN DETENTIONS OF INDIVIDUALS.

    (a) In General.--No Federal funds may be obligated or expended to, 
directly or indirectly, pay a foreign government, agency of a foreign 
government, or foreign entity for the detention of an individual, if a 
court of the United States has determined that such detention violates 
the laws of the United States.
    (b) Foreign Entity Defined.--In this section, the term ``foreign 
entity'' means an entity not organized under the laws of the United 
States or of any jurisdiction within the United States.
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